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Cambridgeshire Council has been fined £35,000 plus costs after a pensioner died when she fell from the window of one of its care homes.

Social services admitted breaching health and safety rules before Peterborough Crown Court despite a warning from the Health and Safety Executive in 1996 that restrictors ought to be placed on windows to stop them opening wide.

Ivy Gardener, 93, who suffered from depression and dementia, died after falling from an unsecured first floor window at Queen's Court home in Bottisham.